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October 19, 2005
Overdevelopment: Planning, Not Rezoning, Is The Answer
Gotham Gazette article by CUNY professor and speaker at last night's public hearing Tom Angotti:
The real problem with downzoning to stop overdevelopment, or upzoning to encourage development, is that they both avoid any serious planning, both in each neighborhood and in the city as a whole. They don’t allow local residents and businesses to address serious concerns they have with everything from housing needs to traffic, because zoning regulations are limited to use and density controls.
Imagine if the city were to take seriously the question of building housing to meet the present and future needs of New Yorkers. The city’s planners might do some projections and then work with every neighborhood in the city to see how they could accommodate their fair share of the need
Posted by lumi at October 19, 2005 10:32 AM